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1. Ormosia Jack.

Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 360, t. 25. 1811, nom. cons.; Taubert in Engl. & Plantl., Pflanzenfam. 3(3): 194. 1894; Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 69(2): 175. 1900; Brandis, Indian Trees: 243. 1906; Merr. & Chen, Sargentia 3: 77. 1943; van Meeuwen, Reinw. 6: 255. 1962; Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 576. 1963; Hutch., Gen. Fl. Pl. 1: 323. 1964; Whitmore, Tree Fl. Malaya 1: 299. 1972; Niyomdham, Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 13: 2. 1980; H.Sun & Vincent in Z.Y.Wu et al., Fl. China 10: 73. 2010.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Trees. Stipules small, caducous, rarely large and persistent. Leaves imparipinnate, rarely simple or 1-foliolate; leaflets opposite, chartaceous to coriaceous, entire. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, paniculate or racemose. Flowers yellow, pink or white; bracts small, caducous; bracteoles inconspicuous. Calyx campanulate, finely hairy inside, 5-toothed, 2-upper teeth connate halfway up or even higher. Corolla longer than calyx, subequal, free, shortly clawed; standard orbicular; wings and keel oblong-obtuse. Stamens 10, free or joined at the very base; anthers uniform. Ovary almost sessile; style glabrous, long, filiform, circinate at tip; stigma lateral. Pods with short-stalk, orbicular, ovate, obovate to oblong, septate or not; valves coriaceous or woody. Seeds large; testa hard, indurate to fleshy or fragile and easily separable from the cotyledons.

About 90 species in Asia and S America; 11 species in Thailand.